Last Week in MPLS

Episode 10

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Mon, 26 May 2014 17:55:08 +0000

In episode 10 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott return from spring break/hiatus to talk about bike stuff and ways to for the average Joe/Jane to make money off of Superbowl 2018.

Thanks to Northward for the music!

Episode 9

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:55:15 +0000

In episode 9 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott welcome Colleen Powers as a guest. They talk about:

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Episode 8

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:00:02 +0000

In episode 8 of Last Week in MPLS, Scott welcomes Tom back from Alabama and they talk about:

David Foster Wallace biopic, starring Jason Segel and Jesse Rosenberg, shooting in the Mall of America

Bob “Again” Carney, Jr. and the mayoral race

“Touching up” the Hennepin-Lyndale bottleneck

Streets.mn’s ambitious suggestions for the bottleneck

Irrigate Arts

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Episode 7

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 02:19:42 +0000

In episode 7 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and talk about:

Chicago:

Airbnb

Foshay observation tower (Photo by Patrick Kelley courtesy of Northern Lights.mn):

Kieran’s Pub

2320 Colfax Ave S.:

Nazi-themed party at Gasthof’s

Golden Girls:

Adult Swim

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Episode 6 with Matt Decuir

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:21:53 +0000

In Episode 6 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott talked to Matt Decuir of OMG Transit and Break the Bubble. He joined us in person, which is a podcast first! Another podcast first is Scott flopping a joke in the first 30 seconds.

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Topics of conversation:

Robert Smith, De The Cure

Singles Exchange

Great bike organizations for people who aren’t white dudes:
Grease Rag, Cycles for Change, SPOKES

David Levinson’s theory of constraints

Why Scott rides his bike on Lyndale Avenue

Shared space
From La Citta Vita on Flickr

Tom’s preferred shampoo

Triumph of the City

Racist map of Minneapolis from 1935

I-35W threatens historic Healy district

I-335, the freeway that never was

Tech.mn’s Midwest Capital Call

Break the Bubble

OMG Transit

Episode 5

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:04:16 +0000

In episode 5 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott drink coffee and beer AT THE SAME TIME.

Discussion topics: Walgreen’s coffee. Being man-children. True Detective. Kemp’s State University. The Dalai Lama. Champion’s lost liquor license. Gentrification. Game of Thrones.

Episode 4

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:07:50 +0000

In episode 4 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott talk about a lot of stuff:

Birchbark Books and Common Good Books are nice places where you can buy Once There Were Castles by Larry Millett.

What’s the deal with municipal golf courses?

MSP Business Journal frets over the cost to update our golf courses
The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota’s “Teeing Off on Taxpayers” report
The Pioneer Press reports on golf’s decline in the Twin Cities
St. Paul privatizes management of a few courses

William H. Dunwoody House, which used to sit at Groveland Terrace and Mount Curve Avenue (on the hill west of the Walker Art Center). The estate was five acres (two downtown/Dinkytown blocks or one South Minneapolis block). It had 42 rooms and a private railroad that brought coal into the boiler in the basement. The Dunwoodys had no children.

Caitlan Barton died while crossing Lake Street.

Five children died in a house fire in North Minneapolis.

Big crowd at First Avenue

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Neutral Milk Hotel.

There’s no place like home by Garrison Keillor in National Geographic.

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(Recorded on 2/16/2014.)

Episode 3

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:30:31 +0000

In episode 3 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott talk about Cool Runnings, spontaneous singing in coffee shops, and bike community. Recorded on 2/9/2014.

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Episode 2

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:23:50 +0000

In episode 2 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott talk about the Green Line LRT, Zygi holes, Little Scotland, and the WNBA. Recorded on 1/26/2014.

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Episode 1

shaffscott@gmail.com (Scott Shaffer and Tom Johnson) — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:20:15 +0000

In episode 1 of Last Week in MPLS, Tom and Scott talk about Mankato and other stuff. Recorded 1/19/2014.

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